Welcome to Rust Brisbane
Rust Brisbane is a friendly, inclusive meetup for anyone curious about Rust, whether you’re just getting started or you’ve been shipping it in production for years.
We aim to meet every second Thursday of the month to hang out, learn, and share what we’re building. Talks are intentionally wide-ranging: show off your project or hobby, walk us through a bug you hunted down, share a performance win, a tricky lesson, a neat crate, or what you discovered exploring other languages and bringing ideas back to Rust. I want to speak →
All experience levels are welcome, and first-time speakers are absolutely encouraged. If you’ve got something you’re excited about (or stuck on), we’d love to hear it.
Come along and say hi.
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Rust Brisbane • Feb 2026
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Talks
Painless commit-rewriting in Git
Git allows commits to be rewritten after they have been pushed, but this process has traditionally been fraught with danger. Accordingly, it has often been recommended against, unless the person doing the rewriting (and preferably everyone else on their team) is an experienced Git user who knows how to avoid the pitfalls. However, commit-rewriting, when done correctly, can be very useful. In this talk, I will present a tool that I have been working on (using Rust), which aims to make commit-rewriting safe and easy, even for novice Git users.
– By David Alexander
(Let me know if you would like to talk at this meetup)
RSVP
RSVP will open the Tuesday 9th Feb, 9am AEST
Venue
- Room
- Community Meeting Room (Downstairs between the escalators)
- Doors open
- 5:30pm
- Talks start
- 6:00pm
Rust Brisbane • Dec 2025
Please join us for the (first and) last meetup this year all around Rust. This will be a new start of this group so please bring some suggestions/things you’d like to see. There will not be any catering.
Talks
gRPC crash course
That’s not going to Protobuf out: a crash course in gRPC with Tonic and Prost. Cheers!
Prost Crash Course: a pragmatic, get-up-and-running look at gRPC/Protobuf services in Rust, using Tonic and Tokio. Suitable for Rust beginners, limited familiarity with gRPC/Protobuf/Tonic/Tokio required.
– By Ariel Richtman
Links
- Slide website: https://arichtman.codeberg.page/prost-crash-course (press “s” to see speaking notes)
- Code: https://codeberg.org/arichtman/prost-crash-course (accompanying demo branches + slides source)
- Personal blog: https://www.richtman.au/
Thread-per-core Async Runtime in Rust
Glommio is an alternative to using the Tokio async runtime in Rust.
We’ll be talking about how to use the glommio runtime to build a high performance TCP server!
– By Tyson Brown
Links
RSVP
RSVP will open the Tuesday 9th Dec, 9am AEST
Venue
- Room
- Community Meeting Room (Downstairs between the escalators)
- Doors open
- 5:30pm
- Talks start
- 6:00pm
Speaking at Rust Brisbane
Are you considering speaking at Rust Brisbane?
Inspiration
Maybe you’d like to talk about:
- deep dives into a project you did
- a new crate you’ve discovered
- safe vs unsafe rust
- embedded anything (no-std)
- tales from bug hunting
- compiler hacking / optimizing output / ASM
- profiling and performance hacks
- testing / fuzzing
- WASM / Web
- integration stories or rewriting it in rust
- upcoming features
- why rust isn’t a good fit for x/why you converted something from rust to x
- why language x with better than rust
- …anything else I haven’t listed
I’d love to hear from newbies, people who just started out on rust and what they brought with them from their old language.
Format
The format depends on your topic and content and can be guided by you.
If you’re keen or have questions please send me an email to rust_brisbane@dominik-wilkowski.com. We can work things out together and I’m also happy to help you with your presentation.
Code of conduct
We want to create and foster a culture that is compatible with what was laid out in the blog post Contempt Culture.
1. Purpose
A primary goal of Rust Brisbane is to be inclusive to the largest number of members, with the most varied and diverse backgrounds possible. As such, we are committed to providing a friendly, safe and welcoming environment for all, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, ability, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and religion (or lack thereof).
This code of conduct outlines our expectations for all those who participate in our community, as well as the consequences for unacceptable behavior.
We invite all those who participate in Rust Brisbane to help us create safe and positive experiences for everyone.
2. Open Source Citizenship
A supplemental goal of this Code of Conduct is to increase open source citizenship by encouraging participants to recognize and strengthen the relationships between our actions and their effects on our community.
Communities mirror the societies in which they exist and positive action is essential to counteract the many forms of inequality and abuses of power that exist in society.
If you see someone who is making an extra effort to ensure our community is welcoming, friendly, and encourages all participants to contribute to the fullest extent, we want to know.
3. Expected Behavior
The following behaviors are expected and requested of all community members:
- Participate in an authentic and active way. In doing so, you contribute to the health and longevity of this community.
- Exercise consideration and respect in your speech and actions.
- Attempt collaboration before conflict.
- Refrain from demeaning, discriminatory, or harassing behavior and speech.
- Be mindful of your surroundings and of your fellow participants. Alert community leaders if you notice a dangerous situation, someone in distress, or violations of this Code of Conduct, even if they seem inconsequential.
- Remember that community event venues may be shared with members of the public; please be respectful to all patrons of these locations.
4. Unacceptable Behavior
The following behaviors are considered harassment and are unacceptable within our community:
- Violence, threats of violence or violent language directed against another person.
- Sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist or otherwise discriminatory jokes and language.
- Posting or displaying sexually explicit or violent material.
- Posting or threatening to post other people’s personally identifying information (“doxing”).
- Personal insults, particularly those related to gender, sexual orientation, race, religion, or disability.
- Inappropriate photography or recording.
- Inappropriate physical contact. You should have someone’s consent before touching them.
- Unwelcome sexual attention. This includes, sexualized comments or jokes; inappropriate touching, groping, and unwelcomed sexual advances.
- Deliberate intimidation, stalking or following (online or in person).
- Advocating for, or encouraging, any of the above behavior.
- Sustained disruption of community events, including talks and presentations.
5. Consequences of Unacceptable Behavior
Unacceptable behavior from any community member, including sponsors and those with decision-making authority, will not be tolerated.
Anyone asked to stop unacceptable behavior is expected to comply immediately.
If a community member engages in unacceptable behavior, the community organizers may take any action they deem appropriate, up to and including a temporary ban or permanent expulsion from the community without warning (and without refund in the case of a paid event).
6. Reporting Guidelines
If you are subject to or witness unacceptable behavior, or have any other concerns, please notify a community organizer as soon as possible: rust_brisbane@dominik-wilkowski.com.
Additionally, community organizers are available to help community members engage with local law enforcement or to otherwise help those experiencing unacceptable behavior feel safe. In the context of in-person events, organizers will also provide escorts as desired by the person experiencing distress.
7. Addressing Grievances
If you feel you have been falsely or unfairly accused of violating this Code of Conduct, you should notify Rust Brisbane with a concise description of your grievance. Your grievance will be handled in accordance with our existing governing policies.
8. Scope
We expect all community participants (contributors, paid or otherwise; sponsors; and other guests) to abide by this Code of Conduct in all community venues–online and in-person–as well as in all one-on-one communications pertaining to community business.
This code of conduct and its related procedures also applies to unacceptable behavior occurring outside the scope of community activities when such behavior has the potential to adversely affect the safety and well-being of community members.
9. Contact info
rust_brisbane@dominik-wilkowski.com
10. License and attribution
This Code of Conduct is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.
Portions of text derived from the Django Code of Conduct and the Geek Feminism Anti-Harassment Policy.
Retrieved on November 22, 2016 from http://citizencodeofconduct.org/
Mostly reproduced on August 28, 2018 from Design System Coalition NYC